Worth Seeing

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG: Catherine Deneuve, still going strong, rose to international stardom in 1964 with this piquant, tragic musical love story. Every word of Michel Legrand's score is sung in director Jacques Demy's Gallic transliteration of Hollywood romance. Sunday at the Red Vic Movie House, 1727 Haight St.

POLLOCK: Ed Harris' vivid, honest portrait of painter Jackson Pollock is bound to be a classic: the film against which all artist biopics are measured. Harris, who directed, is explosive as the self-destructive Pollock, and Marcia Gay Harden, winner of the best-supporting-actress Oscar, is every bit his match as Pollock's wife and fellow artist Lee Krasner. At the Clay.

MEMENTO: Christopher Nolan's meditation on memory and identity finds a San Francisco insurance investigator (Guy Pearce) searching for his wife's killer in a bleak and lonely Los Angeles. Problem is, he has no short-term memory and has to make endless notes to himself and tattoo reminders on his body. Told in reverse order, the movie's a fragmented puzzle that begs for repeat viewings. At the Embarcadero.